IonE Undergraduate Leaders Program

What’s your passion? What’s your sustainability vision? How can your vision be fused with others to help create a more sustainable future?

The Leaders Program is a leadership accelerator within the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. The Leaders Program develops demonstrated undergraduate leaders into real world change makers committed to solutions-focused leadership. Our goal is to grow a cohort of students who are committed to becoming the next generation of community, regional, and world leaders. We encourage holistic thinking and respect the diverse skills and perspectives each leader brings to the table.

The ideal IonE Leader candidate has impactful environmental leadership experience, shows a passion for environmental change, and has a strong academic track record. Participants can expect an open and accepting cohort experience to reflect on, practice and improve their leadership. Through workshops, cohort meetings, and mentorship participants will gain valuable hard skills, cultivate solutions-oriented soft skills, and grow a professional network.

The IonE Leaders Program contextualized my leadership, I understand the necessary complexity of environmental change

2014-2015 Focus themes: equity and reciprocity

How can we use lenses of equity, reciprocity, justice, and diversity to define and think about sustainability?

How can we bring together science, creativity, art, healing practices, and diverse ways of knowing in communication to make sustainability more interdisciplinary and inclusive?

How do these versions of sustainability fit into the big picture governance and policy frameworks?

ADMINISTRATION

The Sustainability Education website is administered by the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment.

SUSTAINABILITY CLASSES

The University of Minnesota offers sustainability courses in most of its colleges and campuses around the state. These courses encompass biophysical sciences, social sciences, humanities, arts, design, engineering, business, and health. The Sustainability Studies minor is one of several interdisciplinary programs through which such diverse courses come together.